Tag: Borderlands

Free Download Bogdan G. Popescu, "Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier "
English | ISBN: 1009365169 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 83 MB
What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic and social development? This book focuses on the Habsburg military frontier zone which originated in the sixteenth century as an instrument for protecting the empire’s southern border against the threat of the Ottoman Empire and which lasted until the 1880s. The book outlines the conditions under which this extractive institution affected development, showing how locals were forced to work as soldiers and exposed to rigid communal property rights, an inflexible labor market, and discrimination when it came to the provision of public infrastructure. While the formal institutions set up during the military colony disappeared, their legacy can be traced in political attitudes and social norms even today with the violence and abuses exercised by the imperial government transformed into distrust in public authorities, limited political involvement, and low social capital.

Free Download Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 By Daniel R. Brower
1997 | 339 Pages | ISBN: 0253332745 | PDF | 8 MB
Investigates the impact of the Russian Empire on its non-Russian peoples of the southern and eastern borderlands from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This title includes the study of ethnic and religious differences that emerged from the Russian encounter with peoples whose cultures differed profoundly from their own.

Free Download Joshua B. Davis, "Borderlands of Theological Education "
English | ISBN: 1978715331 | 2022 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 898 KB + 2 MB
Traditional patterns of educating and training clergy face not only crises of increasing cost and declining enrollment, but also a crisis of identity, since at present it is the academy, not the church, that shapes formation for ministry. This collection of essays outlines a history and a new vision of the church as the primary location of ministerial formation for the future of theological education.

Free Download Munyaradzi Mushonga, "Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities"
English | ISBN: 1666942804 | 2023 | 322 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 4 MB

Free Download Farid Shafiyev, "Resettling the Borderlands: State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0773553533, 0773553525 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.8 mb
Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, the South Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, Orthodox Christian Russia – and later the officially atheist Soviet Union – expanded into the densely populated Muslim towns and villages and began a long process of resettlement, deportation, and interventionist population management in an attempt to incorporate the region into its own lands and culture. Exploring the policies and implementations of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Resettling the Borderlands investigates the nexus between imperial practices, foreign policy, religion, and ethnic conflicts. Taking a comparative approach, Farid Shafiyev looks at the most active phases of resettlement, when the state imported and relocated waves of German, Russian sectarian, and Armenian settlers into the South Caucasus and deported thousands of others. He also offers insights on the complexities of empire-building and managing space and people in the Muslim borderlands to reveal the impact of demographic changes on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Combining in-depth and original analysis of archival material with a clear and accessible narrative, Resettling the Borderlands provides a new interpretation of the colonial policies, ideologies, and strategic visions in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Free Download Yuqing Yang, "Mystifying China’s Southwest Ethnic Borderlands: Harmonious Heterotopia"
English | ISBN: 1498502970 | 2017 | 262 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Confucian notion of "Harmony with difference" (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagates the quest for a pluralist harmony between cultural and ethnic components of society. In an attempt to examine a range of responses to this state-envisioned ideal of accommodating ethnic differences, this book analyzes the literary and cultural discourses that surround three minority regions in Southwest China – Dali, which was once the location of the ancient Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms; the homeland of the matrilineal Mosuo known as the Country of Women; and the Tibetan areas associated with utopian Shangri-La. This book borrows Foucault’s concept of "heterotopia" to address the contradictory and often simultaneously existing views of the minority region as rich treasure house of tradition and as intractable barrier to modern development which combine to give rise to productive tensions in scholastic and artistic creations. Through reconstituting and performing the myths and legends of or about minority culture, the representations of the three places turn into heterotopias which are posed between the mythical and the real in different ways. Functioning as a self-reflective mirror, they simultaneously offer images of the actual habitats of the ethnic other which have been subject to socialist projects of modernity, and become a viable means by which to exert material effects on the real landscape. Products of a fascination with alternative social spaces, the three mystified lands all contain conceptualizations of harmony – be it spiritual, gender-based or ecological – that are conceivably absent in the imperfect actuality of the Chinese heartland. In conclusion, these aesthetically constructed spaces of the other negotiate and enrich the discourse of "Harmony with difference," reacting to ethnic politics in PRC history and creating an audience that grows attentive to the traditions of minorities.

Free Download Elise Partridge, "The If Borderlands: Collected Poems"
English | 2017 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1681370360 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
The first collection of poems spanning the beloved Canadian poet’s short but dazzling career.

Free Download San Diego’s Hybrid Urban Borderlands: An Urban Landscape- and Border-Theoretical Approach to the Inner-Ring Redevelopment of America’s Finest City by Albert Rossmeier
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 346 Pages | ISBN : 3658426667 | 34.7 MB
This study aims for a wider understanding of the redevelopment processes that emerged several decades ago in downtown San Diego and now gradually spread over the downtown edges into the inner ring. Perspectively situated in the fields of urban landscape and urban border studies, the research project outlines how the eastward ‘redevelopment wave’ in San Diego contests socialized neighborhood (boundary) perceptions by transforming the former first-tier suburbs from disinvested communities into ‘urban villages’ and trendy places to be. The study shows how the redevelopment perforates, dissolves, and shifts socialized, linear neighborhood boundaries into areas that are simultaneously part of the one and the other neighborhood. In the present work, the resulting, rather undefined or stretched border areas have been referred to as hybrid urban borderlands. This notion is a novel conceptual approach that can be deemed a promising lens for future studies on neighborhood change, urban redevelopment, and socio-spatial re-interpretation beyond the context of San Diego.

Free Download Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Borderlands: A Study of a Changing Eurasia and Its Implications for Europe
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031339398 | 443 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This book discusses the emerging threats to European stability in different borderland regions, from the Greater Middle East to the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Black Sea. It highlights the specific geopolitical risks that could, left unchecked, have global repercussions. The book shows how recent events have exasperated underlying problems that have been slowly destabilizing each of these regions for years. It also looks at the geopolitical constraints and objectives of the countries within these regions to build a basis for understanding their current and future security challenges.

Free Download Catherine Whittaker, "Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands "
English | ISBN: 3110997274 | 2023 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 112 MB
Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestations surrounding belonging create particularly watchful selves and that this is a significant aspect of borderland lifeworlds more broadly.